In the traditional society of China, craftsmen who consume physical strength and engage in repetitive work have created countless amazing material civilizations, but compared with literate literati, their status is humble. In the ancient west, the status of craftsmen was roughly similar to that of China. After the industrial revolution, mechanized mass production replaced the previous manual labor, and craftsmen were once thought to be eliminated by the times, but this was not the case.
The famous American sociologist and thinker Richard Sannett's monograph The Craftsman provides us with a new perspective to re-understand the historical value and spiritual meaning of craftsmen. Today, with the rapid development of science and technology, although many jobs have been replaced by robots, the spirit of Excellence and dedication possessed by craftsmen cannot be replaced.
Frankly speaking, many people in China are biased against craftsmen, and some even look down on them. In our neighboring Japan, if you are called a craftsman, it means that you are greatly respected.
Only people who are very dedicated and excellent in the industry can be called craftsmen. If spaghetti is well done, people will praise you for your good cooking. Craftsmen will roll noodles according to climate, temperature and other factors, combined with the reality of flour, and then make unique pasta.
Similarly, kazuo inamori, the founder of two Fortune 500 companies and the Japanese "sage of management", is also an entrepreneur with craftsman spirit. He once said: "Entrepreneurs should carefully observe the products with the magnifying glass in their hands and listen to the' crying' of the products with their ears." In addition, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Nippon Steel and other large enterprises have a thorough craftsman spirit.
Some people are biased against craftsmen, thinking that the labor they are engaged in is repetitive and not creative. In fact, craftsmen play a key role in the production process of the whole enterprise, and all production-related designs, blueprints and standards are realized by craftsmen and skilled technical workers.
In other words, without skilled craftsmen, the goal of enterprise development cannot be achieved. The work done by craftsmen is repetitive, but a good craftsman can constantly find new problems in his work and improve the production technology, thus improving the production quality and efficiency.
Numerous facts show that the innovation of enterprise production technology is not only the business of expert engineers, but also the business of craftsmen, which is more intuitive in the TV series "Great Country Craftsmen" broadcast by CCTV.